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If you want to find the numerical value for any  character you can use the Mathematica function ToCharacter 

Code to generate the numerical value, and BaseForm to generate the hexadecimal form. For example, the unicode

value of a capital Alpha can be found as follows.

In[1]:=

BaseForm@ToCharacterCode@"A"D, 16D

Out[1]//BaseForm=

8391

16

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Further information on the appropriate numerical values can be found at the MathML site, http://www.w3.org/TR/ 

MathML2/chapter6.html. Further information can also be found at the unicode site, http://www.unicode.org.

5.2.2 Generating MathML from webMathematica

Certain webMathematica applications generate results that contain mathematical expressions suitable for formatting

with  MathML.  This  section  shows  how  to  generate  MathML  with  webMathematica  and  take  advantage  of  the

rendering techniques described in the previous section.

The  main  webMathematica  documentation  describes  how  MathML  can  be  generated  with  MSPFormat  using  a

format style of MathMLForm. The following will format the expression expr into MathML.

MSPFormat[ expr, MathMLForm]

MathML  comes in two different  varieties:  presentation  MathML  specifies the  appearance  of  the MathML  whereas

content  MathML  attempts  to  specify  what  the  MathML  means.  Since  MathML  contains  no  general  extension

mechanism, the amount of information that can be encoded with content MathML is limited. However, if presenta 

tion MathML is generated from Mathematica, it will always work when sent back to Mathematica.

It is also possible  to use other formatting  styles  such as StandardForm  or TraditionalForm, in which case

the format type RawMathML should be selected, as shown here.

The following shows how to generate presentation MathML.

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